hard fi 'hard to beat'

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i mean come on! how good is this?

there isn't a hard fi thread then?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

i liked it on the first couple of listens/views (nice nod to 'Shack Up' innit) but man those lyrics suck.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

i don't know. you tell me. how good is this?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

those are actually Hard Fi lyrics.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm rather fond of them, crap lyrics and all - while being aware that there might be a slightly patronising element to my fondness.

Dance acts appropriating guitar riffs in 2005: bad thing.
Guitar bands appropriating dance riffs in 2005: good thing.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Hard Fi, Ordinary Boys... why are we on for the seventh summer of ska?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

dude you haven't heard the Lady Sovereign album yet...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

where's the ska in 'Hard To Beat' tho? unless there's some on the album.

i mentioned elsehwere on ILM that I think Coldplay should try making a song like 'Hard To Beat' for once, or that if they were to make a Summery feelgood song that's what it might come out like. Not that this would necess. be a good or worthwhile thing but it would at least be a different move for them and a change from the usual soporific arena-wetting.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

it is unfit to share a universe with "life is a rollercoaster."

if coldplay ever do a song as good as that then they might be worth noticing.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Much to my own surprise, I really like the album. The singles are great, and do really seem like the Clash had a lovechild with the Killers. And "Move on now" is made for the concert lighter-waving sing-along moment.

― brittle-lemon, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

the Clash had a lovechild with the Killers

pretty well everything i hate, then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

OK, to reiterate "the summer of see-through tracing paper takes on already shitty early 80 ISSUES IN TEH WORKING CLAZZOR ska". Seriously, every single Hard Fi article goes on about THEIR STRUGGLE and HOW HARD THEY'VE HAD IT. I take the over-under on how many of them went to private school at 3.5

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

i heard them being interviewed on the radio. they made playing music sound like a secondary career option they fell back on when they realised that all the market gardener jobs were taken. that just about sums them up.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

L.I.A.R. is bloody awful. I am enjoying the unwitting acronym though. Almost as good as the one that comes from Kelis (or Goodfellas) 'Sugar Honey Ice Tea'.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Where have The Walkmen gone?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I don't know much about them, but Hard To Beat is a good song, really like they'd play some French-house on guitars. Interesting.

― zeus, Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like an indie rock song made by a french filter house group. Or the other way around(would it make a difference?).

Anyways, it's really good!

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

sounds like an indie rock ABC to me. but i'm not sure i've ever heard ABC. them the "shoot the poision arrow" ones innit?

― elwisty (elwisty), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Hah! I just now realized I said the same thing zeus said. Sorry.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

No problem! It means that we're all right when we say it isn't ska.

― zeus, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

they are the redskins of 2005.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

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